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Word: solely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman clearly felt no such respect, even though the Constitution gives Congress the sole power to raise money and pay the nation's debts. The President's constitutional right to veto any bill was just as explicit. But his moral right to defy the will of the people's representatives twice in 32 days was a question that would arouse debate, and make Republican campaign fodder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Foolish & Demagogic? | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...Sole high spot of an otherwise barren social season will be an informal dance tentatively scheduled for Friday evening, August 8, in the Lowell House Dining room, although Coordinator William E. Fuller '44 said last night that the date might have to be moved up a week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dance Plans Await Final Completion of Interhouse Executive | 7/18/1947 | See Source »

...kill their dangerous charges. Since then the crowds (70,000 daily*) that come to the zoo have had to content themselves with substitutes. They watch six monkeys and two house cats play in the huge polar bear caves, stare at the modest antics of a Jersey cow, now the sole occupant of the wild boar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tiger, Tiger | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Wolfing on its banks and wherrying on its waters are the sole sports Harvard men associate with the Charles River. Swimming is generally done once every four years in the Indoor Athletic Building for a distance of 50 yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles River Tonic Packs Pickup | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

...kept tabs on his waiters, studied food (he could tell many blends of coffee by taste), and traveled widely in search of new ideas. Once a year he assembled hotel men and other friends for a gourmet's dinner of California wines, lettuce from irrigated Arizona gardens, and sole flown from the English channel. The Waldorf became an international institution. Princes, ambassadors and Elsa Maxwell filled the suites in its socially topless Towers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: He Knew What They Wanted | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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